Past Scents : Historical Perspectives on Smell /

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In this comprehensive and engaging volume, medical historian Jonathan Reinarz offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, he shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with both their immediate env...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reinarz, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Parfym > historia.
Lukt > historia.
Lukter > sociala aspekter > historia.
Parfüm
Geruchswahrnehmung
Geruch
Smell.
Perfumes.
Odors > Social aspects.
Odors.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Human Anatomy & Physiology.
MEDICAL > Physiology.
odors.
smell (sense)
Odeurs.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medecine > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Odorat.
Parfums > Histoire.
Odorat > Histoire.
Odeurs > Aspect social.
Odeurs > Histoire.
Socioeconomic Factors > history
Race Relations > history
Odorants
History, 20th Century
History, 19th Century
Smell
Perfume > history
Perfumes > History.
Smell > History.
Odors > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In this comprehensive and engaging volume, medical historian Jonathan Reinarz offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, he shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with both their immediate environments and wider corporal and spiritual worlds.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages).
ISBN:9780252096020

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